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IN RE: MUSHROOM DIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST LITIGATION

  1. August 19, 2019

    Mushroom Antitrust MDL Deals Totaling $34M Get Initial OK

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday preliminarily approved settlements totaling $33.7 million that would resolve decade-old claims in multidistrict litigation that dozens of farms fixed the price of mushrooms sold to grocery stores, finding that the settlement amounts are "within the range of fairness."

  2. May 14, 2019

    Judge Won't Recuse Over Settlement Talks In Mushroom Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing a class action over alleged mushroom price fixing on Tuesday denied a bid that he recuse himself after participating in closed-door settlement talks that did not involve all parties.

  3. December 17, 2018

    $11.5M Deal OK'd To Cut Mushroom Co. From Antitrust MDL

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday signed off on an $11.5 million deal to end class claims against Giorgio Foods Inc. in a long-running multidistrict litigation program over alleged efforts by the company and a host of other entities to fix the price of mushrooms.

  4. February 14, 2018

    Mushroom Farms To Settle Price-Fixing MDL Class Action

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday granted preliminary approval to two mushroom farms looking to pay a combined $375,000 to settle out of broader class-action multidistrict litigation accusing growers and sellers of the fungi of a price-fixing conspiracy.

  5. December 22, 2016

    Mushroom Buyers Button Up Class Cert. In Price-Fixing MDL

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted class certification to a group of mushroom purchasers who accuse growers and sellers of the fungi of a price-fixing conspiracy, according to an opinion unsealed Thursday in the long-running multidistrict litigation.

  6. November 04, 2015

    Mushroom Growers Push For Pause Of Price-Fixing MDL

    A group of mushroom growers caught in multidistrict litigation over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy urged a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday to pause the case pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court related to proving injuries on a classwide basis, saying the buyers' injury model presents the same questions.

  7. April 24, 2015

    Mushroom Growers Say 3rd Circ. Ruling Foils Class Cert. Bid

    Mushroom growers ensnared in multidistrict litigation over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy asked a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday to examine a recent Third Circuit decision vacating class certification in an antitrust case that mushroom purchasers have cited in support of class certification.

  8. October 17, 2014

    Mushroom Collective Gets OK For 3rd Circ. Antitrust Appeal

    A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy in the mushroom market has allowed a collective of mushroom growers and sellers to appeal to the Third Circuit a five-year-old ruling that they are not immune to antitrust claims under federal law.

  9. August 07, 2013

    Giant Eagle, Grower Settle Mushroom Antitrust Suit

    Retail grocer Giant Eagle Inc. settled its antitrust claims against a Texas-based grower in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday, halting a suit related to ongoing multidistrict litigation over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy in the mushroom industry.

  10. October 22, 2012

    Mushroom Co. Can't Beat Sanctions In Price-Fixing MDL

    The judge presiding over multidistrict litigation alleging a conspiracy to hike mushroom prices overruled objections on Monday from mushroom company M.D. Basciani & Sons Inc. over sanctions, saying a magistrate judge had not erred when issuing sanctions for document destruction.